A look at Quantitative & Systems Biology
A look at Quantitative and Systems Biology
Click to get a glimpse of the QSB program from multiple perspectives! 
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Why QSB?
Quantitative and Systems Biology aims to accelerate the pace at which paradigm-shifting discoveries transform biology.
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Class of 2025
Meet our 1st year class of 2025!
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Joint Genome Institute
A summer program for graduate students at UC Merced to study in labs at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Click to learn more! 

Accelerating Biological Discovery Through Innovation

Whether your passion is to reduce human suffering from disease, mitigate climate-change effects on ecosystems, or advance how we understand, explain and predict living systems, your career will benefit from the unique competitive advantages of a QSB degree.

Featured News

July 30, 2026

Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine. Dr. Garima Handa's journey from an undergraduate at UC Merced to a physician specializing in...

collage of three graduate students: Brianna Aguilar-Solis, Vanessa Sanchez and Nora Shamoon
July 28, 2026

UC Merced doctoral students Brianna Aguilar-Solis, Vanessa Sanchez and Nora Shamoon have been awarded the 2026-2027 UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship, a University of California Hispanic...

New UC Merced student and the Bobcat Bound graphic
July 20, 2026

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2026 semester. Tayven Tipler won’t travel far from his hometown when he starts at UC Merced and he is already well...